Jennifer Girl
How popular is Jennifer?
#586 girl name in 2025
501 baby girls were named Jennifer in the US in 2025, making it the 586th most popular girl name.
Jennifer popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #586 for girls (▼ 42 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 501 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-61% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #251 in 2015, #431 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1972 (63,600 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1 in 1970 (15 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1919 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.4% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Jennifer counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Jennifer family of names ranked #550 for girls in 2025 (#504 the year before), with 522 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Jennifer is most popular
Babies named Jennifer per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Maryland: 0.7 per 1,000 (71 girls)
- Alaska: 0.6 per 1,000 (5 girls)
- Nevada: 0.5 per 1,000 (25 girls)
- California: 0.5 per 1,000 (449 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.5 per 1,000 (48 girls)
Jennifer by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #4,249 |
| 1920s | 86 | #2,010 |
| 1930s | 368 | #891 |
| 1940s | 10,685 | #121 |
| 1950s | 43,075 | #77 |
| 1960s | 164,413 | #3 |
| 1970s | 581,729 | #1 |
| 1980s | 440,914 | #1 |
| 1990s | 148,041 | #8 |
| 2000s | 63,509 | #26 |
| 2010s | 15,253 | #121 |
| 2020s | 3,624 | #431 |
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Questions
- Is Jennifer a boy or girl name?
- Jennifer is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Jennifer were girls.
- How popular is the name Jennifer?
- 501 baby girls were named Jennifer in the US in 2025, making it the 586th most popular girl name.
- When was Jennifer most popular?
- Jennifer peaked in 1972, when 63,600 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1, held for 15 years starting in 1970.
- How many people are named Jennifer?
- 1,476,540 babies have been named Jennifer in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,402,340 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 47.
- Where is Jennifer most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Jennifer was most common in Maryland, at 0.7 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.